Dreaded pump failure

[Neil gti]

what are the early symptoms (if any) of the pump going tits up other than leaking?

No early symptoms with mine just found a small pool of coolant under the car, trip to the dealers and they said it is a known problem and changed to water pump, Auxilary pump and belts,

[Keithuk]

I believe the MkV suffered from this as well so most cars have them changed with the cambelt at about 40k miles.

Look at his sig mate...it will give you your answer!

His signatures says Mk6 GTi but he's talking about the MKV problems with water pumps not Mk6.

[KennyGTI]

what are the early symptoms (if any) of the pump going tits up other than leaking?

No early symptoms with mine just found a small pool of coolant under the car, trip to the dealers and they said it is a known problem and changed to water pump, Auxilary pump and belts,

Need to keep an eye on that one. Dealer happy doing it with mods on your car Neil?

[Neil gti]

what are the early symptoms (if any) of the pump going tits up other than leaking?

No early symptoms with mine just found a small pool of coolant under the car, trip to the dealers and they said it is a known problem and changed to water pump, Auxilary pump and belts,

Need to keep an eye on that one. Dealer happy doing it with mods on your car Neil?

No problems getting any warranty work done at the dealers for me, I don't even take it there for servicing, I always take my car to the indy Vw/Porsche specialists who take a lot more care of it,
IMO the main dealers are just glad of the work, never had any issues with warranty work on any of the cars I've had and I always mod them, some dealers may be different tho ?

[gman86]

what are the early symptoms (if any) of the pump going tits up other than leaking?

No early symptoms with mine just found a small pool of coolant under the car, trip to the dealers and they said it is a known problem and changed to water pump, Auxilary pump and belts,

Need to keep an eye on that one. Dealer happy doing it with mods on your car Neil?

My dealer mentioned the downpipe and ITG intake, but doesn't seem to have put them off replacing the pump! I was a bit nervous, but the chap was brand new.

[gman86]

Just had the car back from the dealer getting a few things looked at ...

- Bonnet release handle came off in my hand
- Clunk going from lock to lock
- Coolant leak

Bonnet release needs a cable and handle ordered, clunk allegedly is the exhaust needing adjusted, and I need a new water pump!

Car is a July 2010, so isn't even 2 years old and has done 20k. WTF is it with this 'so called' premium car?

So far, in a year of ownership I've had:

- Wind noise
- Excessive oil consumption
- RNS510 crash and fail to boot
- and the above three issues

All the VW fan boys will no doubt pour all over this - but in 3 years / 60k miles of ownership, my Focus ST had none of this nonsense. At 18k I had a creak in the clutch pedal which was the pedal needing a bit of grease - that's it!

IMO very little in the VW stable is premium, the GTI isn't a premium car in my view.




Jim

Then why price it that way? I could have bought 2x not very old Focus ST's for that money.

[Steve30]

what are the early symptoms (if any) of the pump going tits up other than leaking?

No early symptoms with mine just found a small pool of coolant under the car, trip to the dealers and they said it is a known problem and changed to water pump, Auxilary pump and belts,

Need to keep an eye on that one. Dealer happy doing it with mods on your car Neil?

No problems getting any warranty work done at the dealers for me, I don't even take it there for servicing, I always take my car to the indy Vw/Porsche specialists who take a lot more care of it,
IMO the main dealers are just glad of the work, never had any issues with warranty work on any of the cars I've had and I always mod them, some dealers may be different tho ?

Neil can you get your car serviced at an indy workshop if you have 3 yrs free servicing ?

[Neil gti]

^^ if you have a service package with the dealer, you will have to take it there,
I didn't take out any Maintanance package so you can take it to any approved VW garage and still get your full warranty, but any warranty work has to be done at the main dealers 

[Steve30]

^^ if you have a service package with the dealer, you will have to take it there,
I didn't take out any Maintanance package so you can take it to any approved VW garage and still get your full warranty, but any warranty work has to be done at the main dealers 

Okay mate cheers 

[mfl]

As I enter my 3rd week without the GTI, after its 2nd water-pump failure in 2 years (30,000kms) just wondering if the incidence of water-pump failures in the UK is an issue ? Apparently there are no water-pumps in Australia and have to wait for the parts to arrive from Germany.  I like the irony of people down under promoting the reliability of German manufacturing.